Almost 28,000 students gain university entrance in Georgia

Georgia’s National Assessment and Examinations Centre released results of the national university entrance exams.
Agenda.ge, 25 Aug 2016 - 13:21, Tbilisi,Georgia

About 28,000 students have passed national university entrance exams and are now registered as tertiary students for the 2016/17 academic year in Georgia.

Today Georgia’s National Assessment and Examinations Centre (NAEC) released final results of national university entrance exams. 

The NAEC said about 38,500 people had registered for the exams and 27, 782 people had been accepted into a tertiary institute in Georgia for the upcoming academic year.

Of the 27, 782 successful students, 4,000 received full state scholarships that will cover all costs of their studies while 6,500 gained partial funding. 

Meanwhile last year more than 40,000 students registered for the NAEC exams, while in 2014 there were 42,000 registered applicants– a record for Georgia.